Recent content by upstate88

While it may be ugly to look at there is no risk to people. It is a warm water copepod (more of a bug, not like a worm) and I have found them on fish in most the lakes in the Mt Hood National Forest (varying degree of infestation). My cleaning process works like this; gut, rinse, one pass on...

I am i welches out by the Mt, moved out here from NY a year and a half ago. I fish the Sandy mostly as it is close to home if your interested in winter steelhead. I am making the drive to the Deschutes Monday to toss some gear for steel head and maybe do a little dry fly for trout if there is a...

Monday was a no go. The river was a bit higher and darker than I really knew what to do with. There was a few guys plunking right along the bank, but I was just not set up for that. I am going to go out tomorrow and see what happens. If anyone has a suggestion on where might work out better as...

Looks like the water will be higher and darker than last week. Its not melting to bad at Government camp, the river should be good at least the first part of the day tomorrow. I will be getting there by 8am if anyone is interested in joining me.

Dabney is not to far from the house what day are you thinking ok going?

Dabney huh? Never been there I will check the map. Is Dabney your regular stomping grounds?

he said keep stroking it and something about a fish finally finally arriving.

I am confined to the bank for the time. I have never fished from a drift boat before but would love to try.

So far I have clocked 45 hours of time on the river (made deductions for lunch and breaks) and hooked up three times but nothing has stayed on longer than 30 seconds. A guy last week told me to keep at it and it will happen in a really colorful way not appropriate for an open forum. Steelhead is...

Anyone want to join me for fishing Monday or Wednesday of this coming week on the Sandy in Oxbow park? I had planned on drift or float fishing and maybe tossing some spinners. I am no pro and have not landed my first steelhead yet. I do know my way around oxbow pretty well so if anyone has...

Thats awesome I am still chasing my FIRST steelhead. I am not getting frustrated just anxious. I have been 6 times (all eight hour days with less than 15 minutes for lunch), and hooked up 3 times but no luck getting one to get close to the bank yet.

I am new to the PNW and really getting back into fishing. Last summer I fished 2-3 nights a week dry flys for trout local, and now I do one 7-9 hour day of steelhead a week. I am located in Welches out by the mountain and have been fishing the Sandy river from Gresham and back towards the Mt...

I went out today and dabbled with both spoons and spinners. I was using braid and used a 3.5' piece of mono held on with a uni knot. Now in all transparency I did not catch a darn thing ( I am new) but I tried using both a 8lb floro leader and 17lb high end mono. Both leaders worked fine but...

the pro cure I am using was specifically made for jigs and does nothing to the action of the jig. It is some stinky stuff I smelled the jig after an hour of fishing and I could detect it. I fish from the bank so I am trying to keep things light so maybe just keep going with the bloody tuna...

First choice is yes or no on the scent decision assuming yes the choices seem endless. The scent would be applied to say some yarn, yarn above a bead, or jig. I have been looking at old threads and it seems like everyone has a preference but I also stumbled across a few people saying one scent...